Double Chocolate Cinnamon Hot Cocoa – Cocktail of the Week

Winter is underway, and sometimes you just want to cozy up on the couch with a warm cup of cocoa...but why not spice it up a little and turn it into a yummy cocktail?

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This week's drink is creamy and sweet with just a hint of spice to warm you up from the inside out.

Let's do it!

You can totally make this from scratch using unsweetened cocoa powder, milk, and sugar...or cheat and use the regular cocoa packets. (I like a nice happy medium of the premium hot cocoa powders that you have to make with milk, like the kind by Ghirardelli.)

I would use a darker cocoa mix for this as the rest of the ingredients are already pretty sweet, so the bitterness of the dark chocolate will lend a nice balance.